# Backing up your project folder

Be sure to backup your project folder on a regular basis. If anything happens to your project folder SD card, you'll have a backup version in your class folder.

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### Connecting to your class folder

1. **Important**: Do not connect to your class folder until you are done working for the day. Always back up your project folder before leaving the lab.
2. When you are done working for the day, [click here to connect to your class folder](smb://ad.uwm.edu/Shares/_U_LS/Courses/JAMS) using a JAMS Lab or CCL Mac.
3. Your browser will ask if you would like to proceed. Click the affirmative option (**Open Finder**, **Yes**, **Launch Application**, etc.)
4. A dialog box will appear. Enter your ePanther password and click **Connect**. The **JAMS drive** will appear on your **Desktop** (on the right.) Double-click the **JAMS drive** to open it in a **Finder window**.
5. In the **Finder window**, double-click your **course number folder** and your **Lastname-Firstname** **folder** to navigate into your **class folder**.
6. In you **class folder,** create a new folder using today's date as its name using this format: 3-8-2024. **Note**: Do not use slashes in the folder name.
7. With the **Finder window** still selected, press **Command N** (on keyboard) to open a second **Finder window**.
8. In the second **Finder window**, select your **project folder SD card** (under **Locations** on left.) Your **project folder SD card** will be named **SD-CARD-X** (**X** will be a random number.)&#x20;
9. Click and drag your project folder from your **project folder SD** **card** into the folder you created in Step 6. **Important**: Make sure you click and drag the project from your **project folder SD card** into the folder you created in **Step 6** (not the other way around.)

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